Got this photo from an elderly lady in town who's husband is in the photo. I think the bodies are heading from Adelaide to Sydney? Taken in the late 50s.
DSC_1500 (1).jpgTruck was a BUSING for those into old lorries. Only a couple in Australia. Could have been made by Tonka by the look of it.
Looks like an old miners train/tram on wheels. Cool pic of FC's being transported.
Looks like an early M.A.N. diesel, I could be wrong.Originally Posted by Innuendo
Pretty close, they were apparently bought out by MAN in 1971, according to google.
An odd number plate attatched to the truck also.
"Proud To Be An Old Fart".
The pattern of the chrome strips on the front of the truck strike a memory, I recall from childhood in the mid seventies Canberra had light mouve/purple public busses with a similar grill. M.A.N. seems right.
The number plate is pretty interesting, looks almost like U.K. ?
Looks like oak/wooden barrells under the cars? Cool pic.
I'm still interested in this thread, any takers on what the structure is under the cars? (It does look like wooden barrels to me, but detail is hard to make out.) I agree with the odd number plate, and also whilst the house in the background could be almost anywhere in any Australian 1950's town or city, the shape of the car parked outside it is not particularly familiar to me - is there a chance this photo was not taken in Australia?
Numberplate looks to have an S and A on it so I'd say it's just an old South Australian plate.
Looks like wooden casks to me aaand, using my own arithmetic process I think the s a. On the plates could very well mean south Australia..... wine casks and sa kind of go together lol
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